Workshop theme: As the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations have revealed, in some ways the developed economies of North America and Europe have never been more interested in creating a cooperative system of economic governance. In other ways, however, the relationship between these countries has never faced more challenges, as new economies disinclined to accept the trade rules and regulatory cooperation efforts of the developed world have ascended to new economic rights and have asserted new legal authority.

The Rutgers Center for Corporate Law and Governance, The University of Washington School of Law, and the Business and Human Rights Journal (Cambridge University Press) announce the first Business and Human Rights Junior Scholars Conference, to be held September 18, 2015 at the Rutgers School of Law – Newark in Newark, New Jersey, just outside of New York City.

The John Marshall Law School will host the Seventh Annual Symposium for The John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law (RIPL) in conjunction with the Belle R. & Joseph H. Braun Memorial Lecture Series, on Thursday, October 15 and Friday, October 16, 2015, in Chicago, Illinois.

The Center for Law and Intellectual Property (CLIP) at Texas A&M University School of Law is proud to present the inaugural Texas A&M Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable, which will be held on Friday-Saturday, October 9-10, 2015. Bringing together intellectual property and technology law scholars, this interdisciplinary event will provide academics with an annual forum for sharing research and peer networking.

The 2016 Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute will bring together legal-writing professors and other members of the legal academy and practicing bar. The conference this year has a renewed goal of building our sense of community. In LWI’s always collegial and collaborative environment, colleagues will have a chance to meet, reconnect, and share ideas about pedagogy, scholarship, and professional growth.

The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth is issuing a call for proposals for academic research projects using the Searle Center’s database on Technology Standards and Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs).

The selected research projects in economics, management strategy, and law can make use of original data on the rules and membership of SSOs, published technology standards, and declared standard-essential patents.